Windows 10: Microsoft Photos/ Windows Photo Viewer Not Opening the jpg/jpeg files after April 2019 Update

Hi Team,


My personal files were missing after the April 2019 Update. I took my laptop to Microsoft Store for the Recovery. The store engineers were able to recover the data after three months of waiting. After that I have not logged into my laptop until last week. When I was trying to jpg/jpeg files, the Microsoft Photos App and Windows Photo Viewer App are not able to open the jpg/jpeg files and throws an error stating cannot be opened. I followed the couple of methods mentioned in the previous questions by the impacted users and the results are same as they mentioned and does not fix anything. Please advice there are a lot of memories of my mother and family/friends/


Any help in this regard is much appreciated.


Thanks

Amith Indurthi

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